Trump: Clinton’s playing 'the woman’s card'

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Sunday accused Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton of “playing the woman’s card” — continuing a war of words between the two campaigns that heated up when Trump said Clinton got "schlonged" in the 2008 Democratic primary.

“She’s playing that woman’s card left and right, and women are more upset about it than anybody else, including most men,” Trump said on Fox News.

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Last week, Clinton responded to Trump’s "schlonged" remark by telling The Des Moines Register it wasn’t “the first time he’s demonstrated a penchant for sexism.”

The back-and-forth has allowed Trump to look beyond the GOP primary and begin engaging with Clinton, who he said he believes will almost certainly be the Democratic nominee.

“I don’t think it’s going to be Bernie Sanders,” he said. “I’m more prepared to run against Hillary because I’ve been thinking about that.”

On Sunday, Trump also defended a message he sent Saturday on Twitter that said: “Clinton has announced that she is letting her husband out to campaign but he's demonstrated a penchant for sexism, so inappropriate!”

Trump said he considers Bill Clinton “fair game.”

“The ‘penchant for sexism’ was exactly her words, and I just turned them,” he said. “I thought it was fine.”